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startup sequence en detail

Posted: 13. Jul 2015, 06:00
by jsfarinet
Please excuse my - probably - stupid question: For some reason i was away from my Salix machine a long time. Now, i'm trying to fix up some startup problems. But i forgot the exact startup sequence ... ;)

Is there somewhere in the docs a link where it is explained "en detail". E.g. where for is looking lilo.conf first. And: What would be the command to NOT start X?

TIA a lot for your patience!

Re: startup sequence en detail

Posted: 13. Jul 2015, 10:03
by laprjns
jsfarinet wrote:And: What would be the command to NOT start X?
At the Lilo prompt, press the tab key and type Salix 3.
Is there somewhere in the docs a link where it is explained "en detail". E.g. where for is looking lilo.conf first
lilo.conf is not sourced during the start up sequence. It is only sourced when lilo -v is executed. So the process to make changes to lilo is to edit the lilo.config file, then run lilo -v. At the next boot, the changes you made should be in effect.

Re: startup sequence en detail

Posted: 13. Jul 2015, 12:23
by gapan
The way the system boots (how the init scripts are used) is described here:
http://www.slackbook.org/html/system-co ... RATION-RCD

But all that happens after LILO boots the kernel. So, what laprjns answered is of course correct.

Re: startup sequence en detail

Posted: 14. Jul 2015, 12:42
by jsfarinet
Thanks a lot to you both! Lilo is relatively clear to me. Rather, what follows then is the problem.

Background of my problem: I'm running clamav as a daemon and i suspect, sometimes, it breaks the startup (probably when the schedule pretends a setup of the database (???)).

Re: startup sequence en detail

Posted: 14. Jul 2015, 21:59
by gapan
What do you mean by "breaks the startup"? What's happening exactly?

Re: startup sequence en detail

Posted: 15. Jul 2015, 08:06
by djemos
jsfarinet wrote:Thanks a lot to you both! Lilo is relatively clear to me. Rather, what follows then is the problem.

Background of my problem: I'm running clamav as a daemon and i suspect, sometimes, it breaks the startup (probably when the schedule pretends a setup of the database (???)).
To update virus database just type in a terminal

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sudo freshclam

Read this article i have written in the past